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Johnny Kapahala

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<em>Johnny Kapahala</em>

‘Lights, camera, deception!’ The big-budget Disney film Johnny Kapahala in production in West Auckland in 2007. The movie, about a US snowboarding champ who returns to his home in Hawaii, was shot in Auckland instead of Hawaii to save costs. Overseas films made in New Zealand are known as ‘runaways’.

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Mark Derby, Knowledge-based industries – Creative industries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21743/johnny-kapahala (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 1 March 2010.